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BICYCLE STAND OR HOLDER.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 519,016, dated May 1, 1894. Application filed January 28, 1893. serial No. 460,150- (No model.) Patented in EnglandMaroh 21, 1893, No- 6,028.

To all whom it may concern.-

Be it known that I, RALPH DE CLAIRMONT, a citizen of the United States, residing at San Francisco, in the county of San Francisco and State of California, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Bicycle Stands or Holders, (for which I have obtained Letters Patentin England, No. 6,028, dated March 21, 1893;) and I do declare the following to be a full, clear, and exact description of the invention, such as will enable others skilled in the art to which it appertains to make and use the same.

This invention has relation to an improvement in bicycle stands or holders, and the novelty will be fully understood from the following description and claim when taken in connection with the annexed drawings, in which 7 Figure 1, is a perspective View of my improved stand. Fig. 2, is a plan view ofthe base plate. Fig. 3, is a plan View, or top view of one of the standards, and Fig. 4, is a vertical, longitudinal, sectional View of the base with the standards partly broken away.

Before describing the details of construction, I wish to say that I am aware that it has heretofore been proposed to provide stands or holders for bicycles, tricycles, and the like, inwhich the standards maybe adjusted to adapt the holder for wheels of different widths and different lengths of axles. The construction which I have devised and here illustrated is of a very durable form, permits of a quick and ready adjustment of the standards or uprights, a ready disconnection of the parts so as to permit them to be packed closely into a fiat parcel and thereby occupy but little space in storage or transportation; the parts being so constructed and connected, that there will be no strain upon any bolts or nuts when a bicycle has. been placed in a holder, and the standards will have a firm bearing upon the base plate.

Referring by letter to. the accompanying drawings:A, indicates the base plate which for the sake of cheapness, strength, and durability, may be of cast iron, and cast with openings so as to render it aslight as possible. This base plate is formed with integral legs a, there being six here shown, so as to susformed at one side of its transverse center with two longitudinally disposed, vertical slots b, and on the opposite side of said center, the plate is provided with two sets of holes 0, which if connected would form slots similar to the slots 19.

B, indicates the standards or uprights. These standards which are of a skeleton or open form, for the sake of lightness, are provided at their upper ends with notches or recesses d, to receive the hub, nuts, or axle of a wheel, and support the same. These standards, as better shown in Fig. 3, of the drawings, are beveled on their inner sides from about their vertical centers, as e, to their edges f, and these beveled sides of the stand-' ards are placed toward each other so as to present a flaring entrance for the wheel, and by this construction and arrangement, Wheels of different makes are permitted a ready access or entrance between the standards, without interference. The standards or uprights are broader at their lower ends than at their upper ends as shown at g, so as to present a broadbearing surface upon the base plate A, and this broad surface is increased by providing angular brackets or lugs h, on the inner and outer sides, respectively, of said standards, as shown. Depending from the standards are studs 2', which are screw-threaded and are designed to pass through the slots b, and holes 0, of the base plate, and these threaded studs receive nuts it, below said plate. As it is necessary, generally, to make but a slight adjustment of these parallel vertical standards, in receiving different makes of bicycles or tricycles, I find that it is more desirable to have but one set of slots in the base plate, as the holes are better adapted to receive the threaded stud and hold the standard more firmly, and when it is desirable to make a slight adjustment it is simply necessary to loosen the bolts-on the studs of one standard, and shift the studs along in the slots when by again tightening the bolts, the standards will be firmly held in position.

When a very wide adjustment of the'standards is desired, the threaded studs of one standard should be placed in the outermost holes of the base plate, and secured, while the studs of the other standard can be shifted along to any desired point in the slots and secured therein.

From the construction described, it will be seen that there will be no weight or strain brought upon the bolts or nuts, While the wheel is being supported, as the standards bear firmly upon the base plate.

I am well aware as before stated, that a bicycle standorholderembodyingstandards which may be adjusted laterally to adapt the holder for wheels of difierent Widths and axles of Various lengths, is old; and I therefore do not desire to be understood as claiming such construction broadly.

What I do claim, and desire to secure by Letters Patent, is-

The herein described bicycle or tricycle stand or holder, consisting essentially of the following elements in combination, viz: the base plate A, supported upon legs and having the parallel slots 1), and the holes a, and the uprights or standards B, tapering from their Vertical centers to one longitudinal edge so as to present a flaring entrance for a wheel and having the notches or recesses d, at their upper ends, the lateral, angular brackets or flanges h, and the integral depending threaded studs '5, adapted to engage the slots and holes I), c, of the base plate and provided with nuts whereby they may be fixed in said slots and holes, all as and for the purpose set forth.

RALPH DE OLAIRMONT. Witnesses:

ERNST EMMRICH, COLUMBUS WATERHORN. 

